A Dissertation by GRACE HUI-CHIN LIN Submitted to the Office of ...

Tien Long Lee
Tien Long echoed his perceptions and observations for meaning replacement
strategy. He perceived that people used meaning replacement according to their own
personal perspectives. The meaning expressed might not be accepted or understood.
However, the basic meaning could be conveyed. Tien Long’s answers were as
follows:
Meaning replacement was somehow a good method. I found my partners
could understand me a little bit when I used this strategy. In class, I learned to
apply meaning replacement strategy. Afterward, I discovered that different
people would use different words to replace a same meaning from various
perspectives, according to their own cultural and language background.
For example, in class discussion, I introduced “Red Haired Barbarian Fort 紅
毛城” in Tamshui. If using meaning replacement strategy to introduce this
building, I would say, “It is a building made by Spanish and Dutch, and its
appearance is red color.” Or, I will say, “It is a red building built by Spain and
Holland.” I thought a part of its name given by Taiwanese government
“Barbarian” was from a historical perspective of Chinese people. Our
government named it this way from their own perspective. Some foreigners
might think it was not accurate or rude to name it this way. Since it was a
building of a city hall in Taipei built by Spanish (1629) and Holland, (1644)
Western people should agree with its name like, “San Domingo City Hall
Hall.”
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